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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>,
	Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>,
	Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>,
	Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu@arm.com>,
	Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
	Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: abstract away the auxiliary vector
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:34:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22739292.VNXgVMcpcx@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180402182434.14045-1-aconole@redhat.com>

Anyone to review, please?

02/04/2018 20:24, Aaron Conole:
> Rather than attempting to load the contents of the auxv directly,
> prefer to use an exposed API - and if that doesn't exist then attempt
> to load the vector.  This is because on some systems, when a user
> is downgraded, the /proc/self/auxv file retains the old ownership
> and permissions.  The original method of /proc/self/auxv is retained.
> 
> This also removes a potential abort() in the code when compiled with
> NDEBUG.  A quick parse of the code shows that many (if not all) of
> the CPU flag parsing isn't used internally, so it should be okay.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-11 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-22 15:35 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Aaron Conole
2018-03-22 16:08 ` Wiles, Keith
2018-03-22 17:39   ` Aaron Conole
2018-04-02 18:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Aaron Conole
2018-04-11 21:34   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-04-25  2:36     ` Thomas Monjalon

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